A self-reflexive Game
Prior to
posting some more theoretic reflections on why Open Science and regimes of
individual qualification and evaluation are by large incompatible I would like
to propose to you an Open Experiment or Game on the ways in which we make use of the embodiement of scientific output.
The Game I
would like to suggest here is less aiming at furthering transparency of
research, but is aiming at analyzing the effects power/gender/race discourses
inherent in chosen channel/journal of deliberation, contributors’ names and
institutional affiliations have within the production of academic texts and
data, their distribution(-s), use(-s) and re-use(-s). Not least it is my aim to
foster the knowledge we have on our situatedness(-es) in academic traditions
and the ways we make use of these in our very own practices and encourage some
kind of active collaborative reflection on how visibility of scientific output
is bound to the multiple settings of status in academia.
Many familiar
with academic publishing and (e-)valuation practices within academia will agree
that prestige − of the channel a piece of academic deliberation is published in
− largely influences the proportion and the ways in which texts and data are
taken up and (re-)used within the different academic communities and traditions
(cf. Journal
Impact Factor; disciplinary positive/negative journal lists e.g Handelsblatt
Ranking Journal List.). My argument here goes further by assuming that
uptake and (re-)uses of scientific texts are influenced to similar proportions
by attribution of characterizations to contributor’s name and institutional
affiliation. A next factor that in my esteem is by large influencing the ways
in which we read and (re-)use already published scientific work is the prestige
we infer through an a-priori implicit or explicit analysis of the (re-)sources
this piece of work is building up on itself. Hence my proposition is to compare
in an Open Experiment on how the (re-)uses of scientific literature and data
differ with varying publication formats and standards by publishing the same
texts once under a cc0 license in an academic journal and once in a disembodied
form in an open wiki-type collaborative cc0 platform (actively promoted by its
contributors). The disembodied version of the text should, contrary to any
academic convention, be eradicated of any traces of prestige/power discourses
that may be attributed to individuals’ or institutions’ names. Hence all contributors’
names and institutional affiliations should be omitted in the text. Second all
references to prior published work and bibliographies, except for
data/materials the argumentation directly builds up upon, should be removed
from the texts. It will be interesting to see, in first place, whether texts,
that do not exhibit any form of personal motivation of gathering and (re-)distributing
portions of academic credit, will be taken up within academic communities at
all. Second it will be of great interest to see in which ways potential
(re-)uses of both variants of texts will vary over time.
Most probably
a project like this one will be much more apt at attracting contributions from
the Social Sciences and the Humanities, as it will be easier to blur implicit
hints to origin and background of published studies than it will be for the
Natural Sciences (access to labs/experimental sets) but nonetheless I would
like to see the Natural Sciences engaging in such a project as well.
At this point I
do not propose any platform on which we could start such a project, but I would
like to invite you to actively engage in the discussion whether such an
experiment is doable and would be glad to contribute in developing a platform
for the dissemination of disembodied pieces of academic deliberation as well as
in developing methods and tools for the documentation and analysis of such a
project.
stiif is currently working @ University of Vienna's Bibliometric Department and is part of the u:cris team. Extra-occupational he is taking part in the Master Program Science-Technology-Society @
University of Vienna. He is formemost interested in the praxeologies of
knowledge production.
Hi Steve! what about trying it out next semester? or have you already tried it?
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